Partitioning criteria revision proposal

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 19:14 -0500, David Lehman wrote:

> > Well it wasn't quite drawn up that way. It was more 'oh, hey, RAID has
> > to work at Beta'. So fwraid, HW raid and sw raid are all supposed to
> > work at Beta...but the only one of those that actually relies on custom
> > partitioning is sw raid. You can only create an sw raid layout through
> > custom partitioning. But you configure fw raid and hw raid through your
> > BIOS or RAID controller BIOS or whatever. You can install to fw raid or
> > hw raid without entering custom partitioning, both in oldUI and newUI.
> > So _in practice_, we wound up in this odd situation where we required
> > precisely one thing from custom partitioning at Beta - SW raid.
> 
> HW and FW RAID make fine sense to me. SW RAID shouldn't be lumped with
> them for this purpose.

That seems straightforward and sensible. Not sure why we didn't look at
it that way before.
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